This brought over many foUovyers of for - tune from England, merl often 0/bad charade rs, but poffeffed of money to buy the forfeited eftates; and the lord deputy was accufed of favouring the raipacity of thefe purchafers, and of hanging fome confidcrable men, whofe guilt was not very appa - rent/

Johnson didn’t like this, and his move to fire Sheridan and replace him with probably the most lenient regime in any of the Military Districts was probably the tipping point at which the Republicans decided they needed to get rid of him, and the point at which they started begging Grant to run in 68. merl says: